Trio

Johannes Eimermacher - saxophone, composition
Cyrille Obermüller - bass
Samuel Ber - drums

The music of the trio with Johannes Eimermacher on saxophone, Cyrille Obermüller on bass and Samuel Ber on drums could be described as poems without words. “Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered...” (Rainer Maria Rilke). Each of these compositions has it's own unique caracter and atmosphere which we use as a gateway for collective improvisations, opening up a space in which the poetry of the moment can express itself.

While composing these pieces on the saxophone, which allows me to play only one note at a time, I discovered that harmony is created not only by playing different pitches simultaneously, but also by playing them successively. Playing a succession of tones our ears remember and create a vertical hierarchie between them. Like planets and their satellites gravitating in different distances and degrees of attraction around a sun. In this way a melodic line or motiv is as well horizontal (rhythm) as vertical (harmony). The entire form of a composition can be developed out of such a single melodic motiv.